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Maybe your school sucked. Not mine - it was the only place where I could use a PC, write some programs. Also, math - I miss so much the times when I could study math and solve complicated math exercises... Ahh... It was a magnificent time. Also, most of my teachers were interesting people.

And in just in case: 0 sarcasm in this whole comment.

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>it was the only place where I could use a PC

I remember sometime in the mid to late 90's the teacher asked the class how many people had a computer at home and only about a third of the class raised their hand. The school however had plenty of computers since they were willing to pick up whatever the local business park was throwing away. "Computer free time" was probably the best part of the school day.

I moved schools several times growing up. Some of them were wonderful. Others were terrible. It mostly came down to the relationship between the teachers and the students (or, dare I say, between the teachers and their inner demons?).

My son has similar experience. He moved few schools already and every time teachers are mostly “meh”. This time we aren't changing the city of living, but looking for a better school for him :)

I don’t remember exactly what I hated about school but I remember promising myself no matter how bad things will get in high school or beyond, nothing in life will ever compare to the insanity of middle school.

College was a lot less productive than high school in terms of academics for me but it was also a lot more fun.

Even high school wasn’t so bad. I’d realized toward the end of high school that I never had an original idea of myself and was at peace with being mediocre.

Was your school completely unstructured? Where did you find time in the school day for all that?

For all of what? Your school didn't have math lessons ("hours")? Maybe some schools didn't have computer rooms, but I'm sure we all had math lessons.

Math lessons? Sure, real basic ones at a very slow pace, but nothing like "studying math" or "solving complicated math exercises." I doubt the teachers even knew had to solve complicated math exercises. No computers other than computers used for a word processing class, so not available for general use, and a couple in the library. The issue is there was not any time to use them, class took up all the school time. Even if anyone was given time to use them, there was no guidance on how to program or use them in any way.

> And in just in case: 0 sarcasm in this whole comment.

That sentence reads very sarcastic. Could you clarify?

If you are trying to make a joke, then it wasn't funny. I meant what I wrote. I wrote it for those who might think that my comment is a form of sarcasm.

I'm not trying to make a joke.

I simply read the sentence and read it in a very honest voice and then in a very sarcastic voice.

The very sarcastic voice sounded more approriate, so I asked you to clarify.

My comment about how I love my school and math was downvoted, so all comments in this branch I'm taking hostile. Sorry.

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